Neil, Neil Greenwood wrote: > On 29/01/2008, Sean Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Obviously, change <user> to your username, and <mountpoint> to the >>> directory at which the drive is automounted. E.g. my command was >>> actually "sudo chown neil:\ /media/FREECOM". >> What's the :\ all about after the username? I've not seen that syntax >> before... >> > > Hi Sean, > > I got the syntax wrong - it should be "chown neil\: <files>" - d'oh! > So it's just quoting the colon from the shell.
There is no need to quote the colon. "chown tony: <files>" works just fine! Regards, Tony. -- Tony Arnold, IT Security Coordinator, University of Manchester, IT Services Division, Kilburn Building, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL. T: +44 (0)161 275 6093, F: +44 (0)870 136 1004, M: +44 (0)773 330 0039 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED], H: http://www.man.ac.uk/Tony.Arnold -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
